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Author · Storyteller
Hazel Thomas
@hazelthomas
Writer interested in historical fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Hazel Thomas is a historical fiction writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
A finished page should still feel alive.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Hazel Thomas
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Paper House at St. Aldhelm's
In late-Victorian Bristol, a widowed mapmaker’s daughter is asked to sort the papers left behind in a collapsing riverside house before the building is cleared. Among invoices, letters and half-finished plans, she uncovers a family arrangement that was built on silence and convenience rather than care. The work of sorting the dead’s paperwork becomes a way of testing what can still be repaired among the living.
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Draft progress
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